Overview
The purpose of this course is to introduce graduate students to networking research.
The first half of the course provides an introduction to the Internet and the basic methodologies of computer systems performance evaluation, including a detailed discussion of Internet protocols and applications, wired/wireless networking technologies, and networking research paradigms.
The second half of the course delves more deeply into network performance research, through the presentation and discussion of recent papers from the networking research literature.
By the end of the course, students should be well-prepared to do high-quality research in networking, distributed systems, computer systems performance evaluation, or closely-related areas.
Here are the official calendar entry and course information sheet for CPSC 641. Plus the revised version of the course information sheet when we converted to remote delivery in March 2020.
Lectures
CPSC 641 lectures take place Tuesdays and Thursdays at 9:30am in SA 123. Or in Zoom now, actually!
Announcements
- April 14, 2020: Last day of class! Here is the class photo that we took over Zoom.
- April 9, 2020: A reminder that course projects are due by 4:00pm on Wednesday April 15. Emailed PDF is fine.
- March 15, 2020: All remaining lectures in CPSC 641 will take place remotely using this Zoom URL. Will see you online each Tues/Thur at 9:30am!
- January 13, 2020: Assignment 1 (due January 30) and Assignment 2 (due February 13) are ready now. Have fun!
- January 9, 2020: First class is on Tuesday, January 14 at 9:30am in SA 123. See you there!
- January 7, 2020: Initial version of course Web site launched.
